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Who funds animal shelters in New York? Grant data from tax filings and federal listings

Name: animal shelter grant funding data (Grant Graph)
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From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 87 grants totaling $1.0 million went to animal shelters-related work in New York. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of animal shelters in New York, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
THE DUFFIELD FAMILY FOUNDATION	1	$250,000
DIANA E BANKS TESTAMENTARY TRUST	1	$124,601
Alexander M Lewyt and Elisabeth Lewyt Wholly Charitable Trust	2	$55,000
LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC	2	$55,000
CAL FOUNDATION INC	2	$45,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER	2	$40,000
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC	3	$31,710
ARKELL HALL FOUNDATION INC	1	$30,000
ISLANDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC	1	$26,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION -	1	$25,000

Across all funders: 87 grants, $1.0 million total, median grant $4,000.

Largest recipients in New York

Recipient	Grants	Total
KENT ANIMAL SHELTER	5	$281,000
SAUGERTIES ANIMAL WELFARE FUND INC	1	$124,601
SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION	5	$90,000
SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER	8	$61,353
SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC	7	$54,236
SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FDN	2	$45,000
Friends of Verona Animal Shelter	1	$35,000
ANIMAL SHELTER OF SCHOHARIE VALLEY	3	$34,580
AYRES MEMORIAL ANIMAL SHELTER	1	$30,000
SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC 401K PLA	2	$25,422

Open federal opportunities addressing animal shelters (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in New York can apply to any of them, so this table is not filtered by state.

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "animal shelter"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: animal welfare, companion animal.

Number	Title	Agency	Award range	Closes
No open, nonprofit-eligible federal opportunity currently addresses this cause in its synopsis. That is the honest answer today.

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 371 listings mentioning "animal shelters" anywhere (retrieved 2026-08-03); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

Private-funder figures come from 990 and 990-PF filings as released by the IRS; filings lag reality by one to two years, and organizations below the e-file thresholds are not represented.
A funder appearing here funded this cause historically. It is not a statement that they are accepting applications.
Filings include corrections: voided checks, returned grants and corpus-distribution adjustments appear as negative amounts and are counted as filed. They are a fraction of a percent of the total.
Cause matching is keyword-based against grant purpose text and recipient names; it undercounts grants described in other words.

Grant Graph is an independent, free index built from public data: IRS Form 990 series e-file releases and the grants.gov API. It is not affiliated with grants.gov or any federal agency. Every figure above is reproducible from the cited public sources.